The Nāṣirī Generations 100.2

100.2

The author of this work, in the year 613 H., set out from the city of Bust for the purpose of proceeding to Sistan. When he arrived within a short distance of that capital, where there is a place which they call by the name of Gumbaz-i-Baluch — the Cupola of the Baluch — on the east side [of Sistan], at this place, a deputation received him, and brought him to the city; and there, at a place which is named the Madrasah-i-sar-i-Hawz — the College at the head of the Reservoir — to the south of the city, which they call Dar-i-Ta'am and Bazar-i-Farod, he alighted and took up his quarters. The author delivered a discourse in the private audience hall of that dignified sovereign, within the Sarae-i-Siasati; and, upon two occasions, he was honoured with robes of distinction from that beneficent monarch, consisting, each time, of three dresses; and, as long as the author remained at Sistan, every month, Malik Yamin-ud-Din sent him a liberal allowance in money and grain, and treated him with the utmost kindness and respect. After sojourning there for a period of seven months, the author returned again to Khurasan.